Trending Science: US biotech companies will attempt to regenerate the brains of dead people

Two biotech companies in the United States have been given the green light to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of dead people.

Bioquark Inc., in collaboration with Revita Life Sciences, has been given ethical permission by US health authorities to recruit 20 patients who have been declared clinically dead from a traumatic brain injury to test whether parts of their central nervous system (CNS) can be brought back to life.

Scientists working on the http://reanima.tech/portfolio-view/project-2/(ReAnima Project) will use a combination of therapies, which include injecting the brain with stem cells and a cocktail of amino acids, as well as deploying lasers and nerve stimulation techniques which have been shown to bring patients out of comas. The first trial will be a non-randomised, single group ‘proof of concept’ trial and will take place at Anupam Hospital in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, India. Source